Collar-button.



E. 1. ROGERS.

COLLAR BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29.1911.

1, 1 1 9,989. Patented Dec.8,1914.

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EVERETT I. ROGERS, OF PROVIDENGE, RHODE ISLAND.

COLLAR-BUTTON.

Application filed June 29, 1911.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Evnnn'r'r I. Roonns, of the city and county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar-Buttons; and I do hereby declare the following specification, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same, to be a. full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The invention relates to collar-buttons and particularly to a collar-button which is primarily designed for use as a back button in the neck-band of a shirt, although it will be understood that the button is adapted for use at the front or as a cuff-button.

The object of the invention is to provide a button of the lever type which when closed will be substantially flat, thereby completely avoiding any liability of the coat-loop or other portion of the wearers attire accidentally engaging the head of the button when used upon a stand-up collar and any bunching of the collar at the back when used upon a turned down collar.

To these ends the invention consists of the novel form of collar button herein shown and described and more particularly set forth in the claims.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be made to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the cup-shaped back-plate. Fig. 2 is an edge View of the same. Fig. 8 is a plan view of the spring plate. Fig. at is an edge view of the same. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the hinge-plate. F ig. 6 is a sectional view of the same. Fig. 7 is a plan View of the lever. Fig. 8 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 9 is a rear view of the same. Fig. 10 is a side view of the completed button with the lever in open position. Fig. 11 is a similar view with the lever in closed position. Fig. 12 is a central sectional view showing the lever in open position. Fig. 13 is a similar view showing the lever in closed position.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a cup-shaped back plate, in the concavity of which is seated an annular spring-plate 2 having two pointed prongs or projections 3 struck up therefrom and arranged substantially at right angles to the body portion of said spring-plate. Mounted above the spring-plate 2 in the concavity of the backplate 1 is a hinge-plate 4, which is stamped Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 8, 1914.

Serial No. 636,014.

in suitable dies to form the elongated open :ing 5, two raised journal-bearings 6 upon the sides of said opening 5 and two small openings 7 opposite the inner end of the opening 5 arranged and adapted to receive the prongs 3.

An L-shaped lever-arm 8 is preferably stamped out of sheet metal and is provided upon its short member with two laterally extending pintles 9 and a bifurcated end 10, as shown in Figs. 7 and 8. Said lever-arm 8 is placed in operative position by passing the free end of the short or hinge member through the elongated opening 5, before the hinge-plate 4 is secured in position. Said hinge-plate 4 is secured in position in the back-plate 1 by turning over and clamping the edge 11 of said back-plate 1, as shown in Figs. 12 and 13. The bifurcated end 10 of the L-shaped lever arm 8 rests upon the spring-plate 2 and is held in the open, as well as the closed, position by the same. The hinge-plate l is provided with a downwardly bent portion 12 at the rear end of the opening 5 against which the hinge member of the L-shaped lever-arm 8 bears when in open position, thus providing for a wide opening of said lever-arm and enabling the upper side of said hinge-member to occupy a position substantially flush with the rolled-over edge of the back-plate, as shown in Figs. 10 and 12.

lVith the above construction it will be seen that the prongs 3 will cooperate with the lever 8 when in closed position to grip or bite the fabric and that when the lever is moved to open position the spring-plate 2 will be moved toward the cup-shaped backplate and the prongs 3 will likewise be moved inward so as to disengage the fabric.

l/Vlmt I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An article of the character described comprising a cup-shaped back-plate, a hinge-plate secured thereto and provided with an elongated opening and a downwardly bent portion at the rear end of said opening, and an L-shaped lever-arm hinged to said hinge-plate in such manner that in open position the hinge-member of said lever-arm will rest upon said downwardly bent portion and substantially flush with the upper edge of the back-plate.

2. An article of the character described, comprising a cup-shaped back-plate, a spring-plate mounted therein and pro Vided with two pointed prongs projecting upward therefrom, a hinge-plate mounted above said spring-plate and secured in position by the turned-over edge of the back-plate, two small openings in said hinge-plate adapted to receive the two pointed prongs upon said spring-plate, an elongated opening in said hinge-plate, a downwardly bent portion at the rear end of said elongated opening, and an L-shaped 10 lever-arm hinged to said hinge-plate and pr0v1ded with a bifurcated end arranged and adapted to bear against said springifleplet efl this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

